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oncord ma which he founded in 1997 a graphic designer by trade he created an online portal for poetry and the visual arts in 2000 now titled mothwingarts com where samples of his poetry photography and digital art can be found as well as the work of dozens of guest artists and poets he has designed and published under the mothwing press imprint a number of books of poetry by outstanding local poets he is also a composer and musician performing classic and original material and working on a new music cd three robins running through grass each bright eye reaching for sign of worm or seed bugsluggish in the chilly dew race forward stop utterly erect exquisitely alert senses extending to grasp the quiver of threat cold menace of hungry intenta shifting in the shadows focused vigilance fills the lungs in each feathered breast the heartthe wings ever beating with fierce courage ready flight instantaneous instinct to escape andy levesque click here for the mothwing arts website posted by chad parenteau at 7 06 pm june 5th stone soup welcomes cervena barva press stone soup poetry meets from 8 10 p m every monday at the out of the blue art gallery at 106 prospect street with an open mike sign up at 7 30 p m for june 5th stone stoup poetry welcomes the writers that help make up cervena barve press which recently celebrated it s first year anniversary as a publisher of fiction plays and of course poetry gloria mindock is editor of červená barva press which publishes poetry fiction plays and poetry postcards from writers all over the world from 1984 1994 she was editor of the boston literary review blur and ran a poetry reading series called blur reads gloria is author of two chapbooks oh angel u šoku štampa 2006 and doppelganger s press 1992 doppelganger was used as a text for a theatre piece of the same name and was reviewed in stages her poetry collection nothing divine here is forthcoming by u šoku štampa this year gloria has been published in numerous literary journals including phoebe poet lore river styx fire bogg blackbox and unu revista de cultura in romania with translations by flavia cosma she has been nominated for a pushcart prize and was awarded a massachusetts council poetry fellowship distributed by the somerville arts council gloria moderates two writing groups and is part owner of one both are based out of the uk on the internet she has written text music acted and was co founder of theatre s 1984 1994 she has written solo performance pieces and performed them in the boston area life mourns el salvador 1983 parents you carry your children s coffins well along the road see the little gifts left for you blood stains teeth shoes and body parts the clouds gather up all the tears you cry so everyone feels them when it rains the military buttons up its coats children you gather the bones of your parents quickly identified by a piece of cloth a shirt a guess sometimes you find bones at the front door but never where you hid you were lucky but even you are the already dead dying slowly from brutality husband body parts hang in the trees the earth is sad today trees as sacred as the lives of those whose hands heads fingers organs eyes touch the branches with their longing i know husband that you are on the first branch in this procession of sadness i stand and console life life embarrassed cries out to the death squad they do not hear their ears are filled and hearts drowning gloria mindock a recipient of numerous grants and awards mary bonina studied with the late poets denise levertov and ken smith her poem drift was selected for boston contemporary authors a public art project and it isinscribed on a granite column and permanently placed outside green street mbta station three of her poems were displayed last summer 2005 in the boston cityhall exhibition 375 views of boston featuring in addition to poetry the work of boston painters sculptors and photographers she earned her m f a degree in the program for writers at warren wilson college her poems have appeared in the anthologies city river of voices 1992 from west end press new mexico and most recently in voices of the city 2004 a joint venture of the rutgers university center for ethnicity culture and the modern experience and hanging loose press ny ny she has poetry forthcoming in another anthology vacations the good the bad and the ugly from tall grass literary guild chicago to be published by outrider press the wanderer 1962 an excerpt from her memoir my father s eyes was published in gulfstreaming the online magazine at florida international university afternoon at nahant only march and it s 85 degrees in boston nahant on the north shore beckons the wide strand where all the simple joys arrange themselves scatter about among snail shells stones sand that sparkles it s rare to know where you belong at any given moment for doubt to take a vacation when the air still has a chill especially by the water and the sun can t quite make up for it gloria s sam and noah and my gianni chase each other circles widening nothing in the way so free to run and who cares if they get wet children don t feel a cool breeze anyway at least not such fortunate children mothers wait for days like this when they can honestly answer the question where are we going give them an answer they can understand we re going on an adventure so we are spending the afternoon at nahant for this we decided to relinquish our worries we ll eat oranges instead of dinner and go home late to our husbands we five race along the horizon of the water s edge push away the thought of rush hour traffic on the lynn way and stay until the sun goes down mary bonina irene koronas is a graduate of mass college of art b f a currently she is the poetry editor for wilderness house literary review and writes a weekly editorial word catcher about the bagel bards weekly meetings her poetry leans toward the experimental with great enthusiasm for the playful juxtaposition of images my youth those dozing hours my breast so freshly spontaneous went up to men at once at once living in city escapes i flourished by wallpapering my mind still running high my former protection was liberty glued to do what i want takes years and months with no other condition than perceived freedom i found no room for improvements my old older still with ocean patterns every kind of situation was undercurrent mucking ruminations oblivious to the caravans that carried me off outsourced my frenzy for it is not any longer the play of past but manners polish my toe nails and hardens my voice insufferably left propriety mingled with reality thank god i lived frivolous as amphibians irene kronas posted by chad parenteau at 2 38 am 5 27 06 may 29 billy barnum features stone soup poetry meets from 8 10 p m every monday at the out of the blue art gallery at 106 prospect street with an open mike sign up at 7 30 p m on the 29th of may stone soup finishes its month long anniversary celebration of 35 years in existance with the reknowned performer bill barnum photos by bill perrault it has been said that bill barnum is an eighty one year old man with a hundred of years of experience he has done theater dance mime shakespeare vaudeville and of course poetry he is most famous for doing poetry and mime simultaneously his poetry is of the abstract school he names philip lamartia and e e cummings as two of his influences he regularly makes the rounds of the boston cambridge open mikes and was once a regular street performer in harvard square much of his poetry on a shoestring in the mid eighties he has also written four plays one of which city beyond sleep was performed on local radio bio written by raffy woolf posted by chad parenteau at 7 26 am 5 22 06 may 22nd dan shanahan edward j cavalho and simon schattner feature stone soup poetry meets from 8 10 p m every monday at the out of the blue art gallery at 106 prospect street with an open mike sign up at 7 30 p m tonight stone soup poetry continues to celebrate it s 35th anniversary with features dan shanahan edward j cavalho and simon schattner dan shanahan was reading and selling his poems to passers bye on beacon hill in 1969 when he met jack powers jack was holding readings at the old west church then and soon after jack initiated the weekly stone soup readings in his gallery on cambridge street dan left boston for alaska in 1972 where he lived for six years stone soup published the alaska poems his first book of poems in 1995 with assistance of a massachusetts cultural council grant in 1997 his second collection crystal lake was published crystal lake reflects on the immanent present and historical past of a mill pond owned by giles and martha corey two victims of the salem witch trials of the seventeenth century in 2003 dan produced an audio book on cd entitled the lotus seed poems a suite of poems recollecting his experience of living with a meditation master whom he lived with in india he is currently working on two new collections the shipyard cantos recounts his work as a welder in the quincy shipyards in the late 1960s the ground we stand on contemplates his early life in holyoke ma once known as the paper city of world his work is a contemplation on where the spiritual and material converge on the landscape of character and the character of landscape he is grateful for the tireless generosity of jack powers whose lifetime has been dedicated to nurturing the poets and artists of boston and beyond edward j carvalho is a twice nominated pushcart prize writer 2004 2005 who has been writing poetry for over 20 years he is the author of several self published chapbooks and unpublished full length collections of poetry including the latest manuscript solitary poor nasty brutish and short scheduled to be published later this year his poetry lauded by nobel laureate elie wiesel and poet martin espada has appeared in various national journals around the country mr carvalho holds an m f a in creative writing from goddard college with future academic plans that include the pursuit of a doctorate in literature and criticism focusing on walt whitman simon schattner is a poet musician who incorporates both into his regular open mike performances at stone soup which he is a regular participant in samples of both are available on his website sample poem from dan shanahan edward j carvalho s web site simon schattner s web site posted by chad parenteau at 5 15 am 5 15 06 may 15th joanna nealon and walter howard feature photos by bill perrault stone soup poetry meets from 8 10 p m every monday at the out of the blue art gallery at 106 prospect street with an open mike sign up at 7 30 p m on the 15th of may joanna nealon and walter howard stone soup staples and longtime friends of jack powers return to continue the celebration of stone soup s 35th anniversary joanna nealon is a fullbright scholar who has published five books in addition to stone soup she has read for various venues such as tapestry of voices ibbetson street press walden pond poetry and the newton and brockton library series she has been published in the aurorean ibbetson street review the stone soup anthologies cosmic trend bitteroot northeast corridor and poesis walter howard is a retired history professor english teacher and journalist he is a member of the longfellow society natick writers and the wayland poetry workshop his poems have appeared in motive longfellow journal ibbetson street press journal of modern writing endicott review and others posted by chad parenteau at 12 16 am newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom welcome stone soup s founder jack powers painting by marshall read our journal spoonful issue 4 out now general information about us an article about the founder online home of the out of the blue art gallery join the yahoo group site maintained by chad parenteau other venues brockton library poetry series demolicious reading series dire reader nantucket 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